Chris is Professor of Law and Head of the School of Law at the University of Reading, UK. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Law (OUP) from 2008-2012. He has a longstanding interest in legal mobilization by social movements, with a particular focus on the environmental movement (including, in more recent years, its climate change branch). Other research interests include law and public perceptions of risk, and environmental citizenship, rights and solidarity.
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Dialogues and Disruptions
The content of Mobilizing Ideas occurs in two threads. The Essay Dialogue is a monthly exchange on a salient topic, featuring insights from scholars and activists. The Daily Disruption is a filter blog of interesting facts, links, news and more. Use the menu at the top or the links below to access either of these full threads.Links to Dialogue Topics and the Daily Disruption
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- Daily Disruption (304)
- Essay Dialogues (450)
- Art, Music, and Movements (12)
- Civil Wars and Contentious Politics (10)
- Coalition Building (13)
- Digital Media in Activism (8)
- Emerging Stars in Social Movement Research (25)
- Emotion in Motion (10)
- Global Climate Movement (6)
- Great Books for Summer Reading (12)
- Great Books for Summer Reading 2013 (8)
- Great Books for Summer Reading 2014 (10)
- Great Books for Summer Reading 2015 (2)
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- Ground Wars and the 2012 Elections (10)
- Hackers: Freedom Fighters or Danger to Society (8)
- How Organizations Develop Activists (13)
- Immigrants and Refugees (14)
- Informing Activists (22)
- Is Terrorism a Form of Activism? (12)
- Latin American Movements (12)
- LGBT Activism: Has the Tide Turned? (7)
- Movements and the Courts (12)
- Movements in East and Southeast Asia (12)
- New Ways to Define Activism (14)
- Organizational Theory and Social Movements (8)
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- Outcomes of OWS (13)
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Recent Dialogue and DD Posts
- A Turning Tide? Grassroots Movements and a New Political Context in South America
- Activism in Latin America
- The Long Road Ahead: Social Movement Activism and Prospects for Peace in Colombia
- El Camino Largo: Movimientos Sociales y Posibilidades de Paz en Colombia
- The Rashomon Effect in Three Headlines/Stories
- Critical Collaboration and Silent Movements: Reinventing the Left in El Salvador and Nicaragua
- Between Fora Temer and Fora UPP: On the White Middle-Class Left and its Attempts to “Include” Favela Militants
- Mobilization in the Wake of Rio’s Olympics
- The Cycle of Socio-Environmental Mobilization Against Transnational Mining in Argentina: Assessment and Challenges (2003-2016)
- Activism in Rio’s Olympic Spotlight
- “Hillary Clinton sees me:” The primaries, “identity politics,” and disability
- ASPA Reception at Drexel University
Top Posts & Pages
- Social Movements: How People Make History
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- The Unseen Effectiveness of Social Movements and Protests
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- Social Movement Failure
- Racist and Right-Wing Extremist Movements in the U.S.: Two Things Scholars Know, One Thing Scholars Don’t Know, and the Implications for Antiracist Activism
- Movement Success and Failure: Looking both at “Ones” and “Zeros”
- Informing Activists
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